Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Singapore · Remote

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco, CA

• VitalStage Ventures is an AI-Native seed fund that supports entrepreneurs building the data and AI infrastructure necessary to create transformative industry impact in the most responsible way possible. We have invested in over 50 innovative technology companies and we truly believe that AI can be a force for positive change. We are driven to support founders because we sincerely think that entrepreneurs are the heroes of the business world.
• Some of our companies include: HubSpot (IPO), Drift (acquired by Vista), Kayak (IPO), Not Diamond, Monitaur, Cargo, NRG eSports, Lovepop, Pipefy, Collaborate (acq. Cisco), Mapkin (acq. AOL), Beamable, Wonderment, Telescoped, Tablelist, Shareaholic, Pagecloud, Neurable, Impact Biosystems, Notion, Influitive, Neural Galaxy, Vesper Mems (acquired by Qualcomm), Frequency Therapeutics (IPO), Sirtris Pharma (IPO), Lola.com (acquired by CapitalOne), Misfit (acq. FOSL), and many others.

Apr 2023 – Nov 2023 · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• Smartsheet's mission is to empower anyone to drive meaningful change. Manage projects, automate processes, and scale programs in one powerful platform. Helped to lead AI strategy, architecture, and product development from inception to launch.

May 2021 – Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Beamable is a platform for game-makers that helps them socialize, monetize and scale their games.

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Woodside, California, United States

Sep 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · New York, New York, United States

Jul 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Honored to be joining the board of directors of Arevo to partner with my dear friend Sonny Vu, Defy Partners, GGVC, Khosla Ventures and many others as they build Arevo into a composites design and production powerhouse.

Aug 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco, California

• Venture-backed developers of Constellation, a unified data and analytics platform powering patented LLM natural language question answering, federated search, and Generative AI models

Jan 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Providence Strategic Growth (“PSG”) is an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners (“Providence”). Established in 2014, PSG focuses on growth equity investments in lower middle market software and technology-enabled service companies, primarily in North America. Providence is a premier global asset management firm with approximately $60 billion in capital under management across complementary private equity and credit businesses. Providence pioneered a sector-focused approach to private equity investing with the vision that a dedicated team of industry experts could build exceptional companies of enduring value.
• Built an investment thesis around hybrid cloud infrastructure. Led investments in LogDNA and DivvyCloud (acquired by Rapid7 for $145mm). Served on the board of directors of DivvyCloud and Vertical Knowledge. Led the creation of a data-driven deal origination system powered by machine learning called OPTX.

Oct 2017 – Sep 2018 · 11 mos · Greater Boston

• In-Q-Tel is the not-for-profit, strategic investment firm that works to identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Launched in 1999 as a private, independent organization, IQT’s mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States.
• IQT occupies a distinct role at the intersection of all stakeholders – our Government and Intelligence Community customers, the venture capital community, and the startup world. It is our access to and deep understanding of these diverse communities that fuel our ability to make relevant investments.
• Led 5 investments spanning AI, AI hardware, integrated devices, energy harvesting, and computer vision during a super enjoyable year serving national security, but was recruited to join Providence Equity’s Strategic Growth team.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2018 · 8 yrs · Boston, MA

Jan 2007 – Present · 19 yrs 3 mos · Cambridge, MA

• Early investor in Kayak, Honest Co, Stripe, Warby Parker, Paydiant, and many others

Jun 2005 – Aug 2005 · 2 mos

• Business school internship focused on quantitative analysis, asset allocation, and application of the Black-Litterman model on private equity.

Jan 2005 – Apr 2017 · 12 yrs 3 mos

• Visible Measures is a leading video advertising & analytics company. Long considered the most trusted source for data and insights on video content advertising, Visible Measures provides an end-to-end solution for benchmarking and capturing consumer attention programmatically through video and native media. Visible Measures works with hundreds of global brands, agencies, trading desks, and publisher clients, which include Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Nestle, VivaKi and Condé Nast, while pioneering many big data processing and analytics capabilities with new video metrics and several key patents issued. I founded the company and led it as CEO, growing it to a peak of 185 employees and an $80mm run rate, to its sale to AcuityAds, a publicly traded advertising technology company (Nasdaq: ATY)

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• Tried to pitch in and help when possible from the earliest days of Sirtris up until it went public. Sirtris was subsequently acquired by GSK for $720mm

Apr 2000 – Sep 2004 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Bootstrapped and built profitable technology analytics consulting firm with clients ranging from Procter and Gamble or Nature America to startups. Helped companies plan technology strategy or lead complex software / analytics development projects

Dec 1998 – Apr 2000 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Built and managed Medsite Technology Group, an 80 person team of design, analysis, QA, engineering and IT. Learned a ton about budgeting, team building, hiring, and management. Helped company grow from 30 to 300+ people and revenues grow tenfold to approx. $30 mm. Joined Medsite upon the acquisition of a company I co-founded called Creative Aspects.

Mar 1998 – Jan 1999 · 10 mos · Cambridge, MA · Hybrid

• Co-founded health analytics company. Helped sign first enterprise customer, designed and developed core analytics software product, helped raise venture capital round. Hired and managed development team. Company was successfully acquired by Medsite.

May 1997 – May 1998 · 1 yr

• Web developer for leading web software company.